Moscow to Test Facial Recognition Systems for 45 Million Rubles

The company “Electronic Moscow,” owned by the Moscow City Property Department, has allocated 45 million rubles (about $600,000) for software to test facial recognition systems, according to MBK Media. As stated in the tender, the software must generate test tasks in the form of image sets, where data indexing modules will identify human faces.

The program will group images by several parameters: gender, age, presence and type of beard, glasses, mask, and race. The volume of data for test tasks must be at least 100,000 images “used simultaneously in active tasks.” After testing, the software will assign scores to the data indexing modules and create a ranking.

The system must support interfaces for modules such as FindFace SDK, VisionLabs LUNA Enterprise, Tevian FaceSDK, and Synesis Kipod. The review of the second part of the applications and the announcement of results is scheduled for April 16, 2021. We will continue to follow the fate of this tender, or you can do so yourself using the government procurement monitoring portal.

Earlier, it was reported that about 28.5 billion rubles would be spent on the city’s video surveillance system. This amount should be enough to support the operation of nearly 176,000 cameras and transmit their footage to a unified data storage center (UDSC) from 2021 to 2023.